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Local is anything but boring. It’s the main political sphere you can personally influence. It’s not unusual for a local candidate to win by a handful of votes,

Local is anything but boring. It’s the main political sphere you can personally influence. It’s not unusual for a local candidate to win by a handful of votes, maybe people you personally persuaded. Local candidates are also far less polished than national ones, so you get all sorts of characters. Local politics is what decides your school board, police, and zoning regulations. There may be small time corruption and things often get heated. Maybe the reason local politics seems boring is because local media is largely hollowed out and acquired by huge national corporations like Grey Media Group. Local TV news has become sports, weather and crime mostly.

pixl97 3y ago
>Local is anything but boring. > It’s not unusual for a local candidate to win by a handful of votes Where about 10-20% of the population is voting at all. This is because the 'average' person isn't politically connected to these local events, and mostly never has been in the US. The first moment anything else interesting showed up. And with TV/internet/mass global communication that constant feed is here. Hell, it started showing up decades ago with the advent of 24/7 news. Your local media simply can't drive a torrent of 30 second clips like tik-toc can. Your local populace just isn't that interesting. No matter how much they try to complete, there is orders of magnitude of difference in scale between them.